Keystone advances

North American energy independence has been an elusive dream that could at last become reality.

It would take government to ruin an opportunity this big.

Some of us are old enough to remember waiting in long lines to buy gas during the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s. Many of us had to buy locks for our gas tanks to keep thieves from siphoning our precious fuel away.

“Energy independence!” Politicians promised, but they did not meaningfully try to deliver.

A nihilistic Green movement attacked our energy and kept us dependent — and vulnerable. They came up with climate change and renewed their assault.

An investigation into Russian meddling into America’s energy economy over the years might be an eye-opener.

Yet, free markets are powerfully efficient. Despite obstacles of every kind, a North American energy revolution took hold allowing us to access vast quantities of oil and gas from fracking, offshore rigs and Canadian oil sands.

Pipelines are the safest, cleanest and most efficient way to move this treasure trove of energy to refineries and consumers. Obstructing pipelines is a favorite tactic of the anti-energy Left.

The Keystone XL pipeline has passed every environmental and economic test, yet has been thwarted time and again. Barack Obama became Keystone’s obstructor in chief. CFACT’s Paul Driessen explains at The Hill that Keystone just took a giant step forward.

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10 Comments

pkwz
November 28, 2017 at 1:23 PM

Only a lunatic would not want cheap oil to fuel our lives. Greens want expensive and unreliable energy. They also like government subsidized energy versus energy supplied by profit seeking businesses (that also pay taxes to pay for the government subsidized “green” energy).

Phrog W
November 30, 2017 at 8:10 AM

If you want cheap oil, just mine it from Alaska, there’s probably more there than in the rest of the world.

pkwz
December 1, 2017 at 2:26 PM

Trump is opening up more land in Alaska for oil development. And it’s certain that as the need arises, more drilling will occur in Alaska.

cshorey
December 8, 2017 at 11:56 PM

You dream of Trump opening up more, don’t you. Don’t get too wet.

cshorey
December 8, 2017 at 11:54 PM

But that pesky solifluction and proven affect of atmospheric carbon on climate . . . ah the economic externalities we all wish we could ignore until they come around to bite you in the ass.

cshorey
December 8, 2017 at 11:52 PM

Did you take into account how much water is used in extracting tar sands? Did that externality get put into your calculation of “cheap oil”? How about the global effects of carbon on climate, which I know you deny even though the science is on the side of greenhouse warming. Guess a rational person will look “lunatic” from that messed up perspective. #Dunning-Kruger

pkwz
December 9, 2017 at 12:08 AM

There’s a shortage of water in Canada?! LOL!

cshorey
December 9, 2017 at 12:30 AM

That you didn’t realize water was a part of this issue speaks volumes to your ignorance:

That you equate “carbon” and “carbon dioxide” as the same thing reduces your argument from a scientific standpoint. Why don’t you specify which one you mean so there is no ambiguity in your debate? Unless you consider that specificity “lunatic”?

cshorey
December 11, 2017 at 8:58 PM

So you’ve never used shorthand descriptions? Seriously, do you think anyone wouldn’t know I was talking about CO2, you clearly did. Nice try to find a flaw, but the “flaw” you found says a lot more about your thinking than my communication. #Dunning-Kruger x 2

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Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president.
For over 30 years, Craig has provided expertise to a wide range of government, academic, media, and industry forums. His organization, the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, boasts a large grassroots membership base, features over 50 scientific and academic experts, and is widely heralded as a leader in the free market, think tank community in Washington, D.C. In addition to being a frequent guest on radio talk shows, Rucker has also written extensively and appeared in such media outlets as CNN, the BBC, USA Today, New York Times, Russia Today, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, among many others.
Rucker was a co-producer of the award-winning film “Climate Hustle,” which was the #1 box-office film in America during its one night showing in 2016. He also has primary responsibility for building CFACT’s “Collegians" program on more than 50 campuses across the U.S., spearheads the creation of model demonstration eco-projects in impoverished villages in Latin America and Africa, and has led delegations to some 20 major United Nations conferences, including those in Copenhagen, Istanbul, Kyoto, Bonn, Marrakesh, Rio de Janeiro, and Warsaw, to name a few. Rucker has a wife and four sons, and currently resides in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

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